[Rekidk]

Live event yesterday! Video about it today.

Cool beans.

[Francus]

Bree is brainwashed into joining the Hymn of One, and might be trying to give us clues to her location. Click here to watch her latest video. If you zoom in on her eyes, you can see the reflection of a building-entrance...

Jonas and Daniel want to rescue her, and found Bree's box (click here to see the video of them finding it, and here to watch the video of what's inside.

Bree's father injected her with something to lower her levels of 'rybozymes'.

[Francus]

I was 50% compatible too...

However, i found the following post on the LG15-site:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Paulo Says: May 25th, 2007 at 2:42 pm ***** PUZZLE SPOILER about joining the hymn of One **** Well, first, you start with 7.5% compatibility even if you don’t answer any of them. The text answers appear to be irrelevant. I said I was male, age 31-40 which made no difference. In order, the answers that work are: (1 being strongly disagree, 5 being strongly agree) 1. I am prepared to answer this questionnaire 5 2. I am calm and rational 3 3. I am one of the smartest people I know 3 4. I get angry when I probably shouldn’t 3 5. I fall in love easily 5 6. People don’t listen to me when they should 3 7. My favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla 3 8. I am afraid of my dreams 3 9. I put myself first 3 10. I enjoy walking on the beach 5 11. I think aging is a treatable disease 5 12. I am afraid of the dark 3 13. I prefer my own company to the company of others 5 14. I don’t enjoy eating 3 15. I am my own body 3 16. Circles make me nervous 1 17. Global Conflict is escalating 5 18. I am a powerful person 1 19. I believe people lie to me every day 3 20. I am being watched right now Note that some of the answers will surprise you. When I did it, all that happened is I got the “99%” badge to show up, so far I have no email.

I wonder if it is possible to get a full 100%...

[fictional_girl]

I "auditioned" for the HOO... they said I was 50% compatible.

<sarcasm>Darn, I kinda of wanted to be brainwashed! </sarcasm>

[Francus]

 

[oxdeltaxo]

colin wrote:

I've been watching them. But, yeah, I think people were interested in the fallacy more than the story. If the makers had not come out so obviously there would still be a bit more interest, even knowing it's fake. There's been a really high level of cynacism towards to motives of the people making this. It seems people aren't so positive to the 'blair witch effect' these days.

I think the cynacism is in large part due to the distrust of radically different forms of entertainment. It happens, they will eventually ease into new ideas, but for now they feel betrayed because no one spelled out what exactly was real or not. Personally I thought lg15 was real, you can go back about 7 or 8 pages and see, but I didn't feel bad when it was revealed to be fake. I don't know what all the lg15 fan boys/girls were crying about.

[Ehsan]

I'm still watching the videos, but there's not much for me to talk about anymore. My current reaction is "Meh".

The producers had huge potential with this. They could have taken it in any direction and kept it obviously fake but extremely enjoyable.

Instead we get an anti-climatic reveal, followed by... nothing! Pretending nothing happened, confusing everyone, and going back into their corner. And then they redesign lonelygirl15.com, and move to revver, while weird things happen on the forums. The last nail in the coffin for me was Bree dancing on Leno... eh, double-u tee ef?

Agree with colin. The story isn't that appealing and they haven't built in the required interactivity to follow the demands of the audience. Woo Daniel kissed Bree! Where's my evil dark virgin sacrificing cult!

This might have been pure genius, but it's very obvious now that it was just beginner's luck. Someone should go over there and buy them a new Curtain. Idiots.

[colin]

I've been watching them. But, yeah, I think people were interested in the fallacy more than the story. If the makers had not come out so obviously there would still be a bit more interest, even knowing it's fake.

There's been a really high level of cynacism towards to motives of the people making this. It seems people aren't so positive to the 'blair witch effect' these days.

[dmax]

Woah. multiple videos released in the last week or so, and not one comment.

Everyone's given up on this, right?

[rowan]

GuyIncognito wrote:

FWIW, I think colin was referring to the statement by the creators of LonelyGirl15, assuming that they want to make the "Bree stuff" into an ARG by incorporating "more ARG elements into [the original] LG15"...

I guess maybe I was reading it wrong, but then again, just because you have ARG elements doesn't mean it's an ARG, so it's hard to say just how bad things can get.

[GuyIncognito]

rowan wrote:

colin wrote: ...so if it's bad when PMs launch without spending enough time developing the game, what does that make it when you've already launched and then decide to make it an ARG? really really bad? Only if you're the one really running the game. If it's someone else, then they new suck and are borderline trollish. Of course, that makes people trying to mess with the game that's messing with the original storyline really pathethic. But that's just my take on the whole thing. I like the Bree stuff. Cassie can go jump in the lake.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you're talking about the GameJackers (cassieiswatching) and the people subsequently trying to rip that off (MySpace Cassie, etc.), right?
FWIW, I think colin was referring to the statement by the creators of LonelyGirl15, assuming that they want to make the "Bree stuff" into an ARG by incorporating "more ARG elements into [the original] LG15"...

[rowan]

colin wrote:

...so if it's bad when PMs launch without spending enough time developing the game, what does that make it when you've already launched and then decide to make it an ARG? really really bad?

Only if you're the one really running the game. If it's someone else, then they new suck and are borderline trollish. Of course, that makes people trying to mess with the game that's messing with the original storyline really pathethic. But that's just my take on the whole thing. I like the Bree stuff. Cassie can go jump in the lake.

[colin]

...so if it's bad when PMs launch without spending enough time developing the game, what does that make it when you've already launched and then decide to make it an ARG? really really bad?

[GuyIncognito]

Well, after yesterday's cassieiswatching madness, I gotta say: Good call on keeping the threads separate, rowan. Your hunch proved right...

Anyway, one thing that came of it is a new statement by The Creators concerning the future of LonelyGirl15 (and their involvement with cassieiswatching):

http://www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=718 wrote:

We have plans to incorporate more ARG elements into LG15 so we are excited to see such a vigorous investigative response to cassieiswatching despite the fact that the subject matter is darker than we would like.

We'll see where this goes...right now, I think they'd better get their act together before the opportunity they created slips through their fingers.

[jamesi]

Re: Since you're on top of it